{"id":1064,"date":"2011-05-12T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2026-01-13T04:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T04:43:07","slug":"2011-great-plains-storm-chase-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/2011\/05\/12\/2011-great-plains-storm-chase-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Great Plains Storm Chase Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/2011\/05\/12\/2011-great-plains-storm-chase-trip\/img20110511_img_6051_lg\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/img20110511_IMG_6051_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/img20110511_IMG_6051_lg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/img20110511_IMG_6051_lg-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/img20110511_IMG_6051_lg-768x387.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/images\/2011\/img20110511_IMG_6051_lg.jpg\"><\/a>It&#8217;s been over 8 months since my May 2011 chase trip, and I finally got around to finishing my reports and photos for the 3,750 mile round trip. This was a tough one for me from a forecast and positioning standpoint. No tornadoes, and only one halfway decent supercell intercept. Everything else was incidental, fringe, weak storm interactions. As frustrating as that was, I have to remind myself of the beautiful things I did witness along the way, and a lot of important lessons learned. I&#8217;m taking a cue from Skip Talbot and posting a &#8220;Lessons Learned&#8221; section at the end of each day&#8217;s report. I&#8217;m looking forward to another chase trip in 2012 and hope I can manage to improve my forecasting and positioning and see some more amazing weather on the plains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/001479.html\">Day 1 &#8211; MAY 8, 2011 &#8211; Night Storms in South Dakota<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/001506.html\">Day 2 &#8211; MAY 9, 2011 &#8211; Anticipating Initiation in South Dakota<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/001507.html\">Day 3 &#8211; MAY 10, 2011 &#8211; Positioning Practice in Kansas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/001508.html\">Day 4 &#8211; MAY 11, 2011 &#8211; Tough Decisions in Kansas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/2011\/05\/12\/2011-great-plains-storm-chase-trip\/img20110512_chasemapfull_lg\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"818\" src=\"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/img20110512_ChaseMapFull_lg-1024x818.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/img20110512_ChaseMapFull_lg-1024x818.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/img20110512_ChaseMapFull_lg-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/img20110512_ChaseMapFull_lg-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/img20110512_ChaseMapFull_lg.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been over 8 months since my May 2011 chase trip, and I finally got around to finishing my reports and photos for the 3,750 mile round trip. This was a tough one for me from a forecast and positioning standpoint. No tornadoes, and only one halfway decent supercell intercept. Everything else was incidental, fringe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storm-chase","tag-storm-chasing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}